“You should get back to the club. Thanks for the offer to help but I’ve got to do this myself.”
It doesn’t feel right but who am I not to listen to her. I climb out of her bed and grab her phone. I add my number to her contacts and then dress.
“If you ever need me, call.
Chapter Fourteen
Leo
The last thing me and my paranoia needs is Grim and Nora sat at my table. I should’ve expected Holly to invite them to dinner but walking in and seeing Nora in my living room was the last thing on my mind. Nora is preoccupied with their son Spencer to pay me any notice, but I notice everything she does. There’s tension running through her. As she eats, her hands slightly shake around the silverware. She’s nervous, but she’s doing her best to hide it.
“Thank you, Holly. That was lovely,” Grim says breaking my spell over his old lady.
My food has gone cold and left untouched. Holly arches her brow, questioningly, but doesn’t say anything. I head out into the back yard with Grim for a smoke and he doesn’t miss a beat.
“Are we good?”
“Sure. What makes you ask?”
He shrugs. “Dunno, just weird vibes at dinner.”
“I’ve got shit on my mind.”
I inhale on my cigarette until the cherry burns down and I exhale up into the darkening night’s sky.
“Anything I can help out with while I’m here?”
“Nah, I’m good. Besides, once the funeral’s over, you’re on your way back to Mercy, yes?”
“I’m getting the feeling you want us to leave straight from the wake, Prez.”
“I could do without your old lady around while there’s a missing report out on Harry.”
I flick my cigarette into the ashtray and leave him to finish his smoke. I stop short when I hear Nora ask Holly, “Have you heard anything about this missing report on Harry?”
“I can’t say that I have. Leo doesn’t talk about that kind of stuff when he’s home. You’re not worried, are you? You know the club won’t let anything happen.”
“I know, it’s just I’ve moved on from him… when I first left Willow’s Peak, I thought he’d be in my head all the time and for the rest of my life. But then, I had Spencer and Grim and it’s like, Harry disappeared from my memory.”
“He still has. Don’t worry about this, Nora. You’ll bury your mom and then Grim will take you home and all this will be back in the past. If it doesn’t, talk to Leo.”
The dishwasher is switched on and drowns out their hushed voices. Not wanting to be seen, I escape upstairs and after checking in on Roman and Rayna, where I find Sebastian camped out on Rayna’s floor, I switch off the TV and close myself in in my bedroom and wait for Holly. I make myself comfortable on the bed. I’m on the verge of drifting off when the door creeps open and I crack open an eye.
“I thought you’d left.”
“Nah, just waiting on you.”
She stands at the bottom of the bed and slyly lifts her top up, showing her tanned stomach.
Forgetting the shit going down in the club and everything plaguing me with Nora and Grim, I focus on my old lady as she slips out of her jeans and climbs onto the bottom of the bed.
“Are you here for the night or do you have to be somewhere.”
Sitting up, I rip my hoodie over my head and toss it on the floor. Leaning back, I unzip my jeans, all the while keeping my eyes on my wife. Her coy smile has me regretting not being here more often lately.
“I heard you and Nora talking after dinner, about her ex.”
“I’m moving to seduce my husband and he wants to talk about another woman?”
